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Well, my winter stash of RO is all gone. Do I try cowboys from lowes? Or order WGWW to the ace that is about an hour away? Or cave and buy a bag of over priced BGE from my stealership. I've been scavenging for bags of lump when I'm out and about and haven't found anything. Heard bad things about cowboy.

Cowboy is certainly not top shelf. I will be honest with you though. I prefer Cowboy to the last few batches of RO I have gotten. Others in my area agree the last bit of RO we have gotten has been terrible. Place an order WGWW and then get a few bags of other stuff to tide you over. Guessing you cant find anymore RO? You are safe with BGE at least. If you see Nature Glo, snatch that up.

Not sure where you are located, but if you have Menards in your area, they carry green bag RO which is about all I use. Otherwise, I go to the Kroger grocery store and buy their store brand which is fairly decent stuff. I'm not a big WGWW fan but that's just me.

Ouch .. yeah that's not great .. for me it's just inside the price I pay at Ace. I was also going to say - I'm not a real fan of cowboy, but really only because i found it strong flavored .. if you're inclined to have a strong smoke flavor in your cooking - you might not care - at least enough to get you through the winter. It does burn quicker and produce more ash than WGWW or RO.

I agree with @Chubbs, i squirrelled away a few bags of RO last fall and have found every other bag to be really nasty stuff, lots of rocks and what looks like plywood and meteorites. The others have been normal good RO charcoal. Strange.

I've had sparking problems w. Frontier all the time, RO the last few bags, and Cowboy sometimes over the last year. Try the Cowboy. If it sparks a lot, put a layer of some "natural" briquettes over it. The briquettes and their ash will keep any sparks down, and should not produce enough ash to clog the vent holes.

I was nervous the other day, was down to about 88 lbs of lump. Bought the last 3 bags of RO I found in the back of Wally's garden center.

I was reading the Engrish instructions that came with a Chinese power supply a while back:

"Sparking is badness!"

Same goes with lump.

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I've still got 60 lbs of cowboy, but for some reason since I've been using Cowboy lump it takes longer to get to temp and it doesn't seem to burn very hot. I keep it in the original bags in my garage and I'm wondering if the humidity common here on the bayou might be the problem.